[mythtv-users] Unknown socket

[Craig Treleaven]

At 3:55 PM -0500 12/5/11, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>On 12/05/2011 03:32 PM, Craig Treleaven wrote:
>> Arghh!
>>
>> I've had to rebuild my myth box (Mac mini, OS X 10.6.8) and I'm
>> upgrading to 0.24.  I had just about everything running this morning
>> (sense the foreshadowing?) but then got the bright idea that I ought
>> to tweak MySQL.  It appears strictly on defaults as there was no
>> my.cnf file in /etc.
>>
>> I took a sample my-large.cnf and dropped it in as /etc/my.cnf.  By
>> mistake, I enabled "skip-networking".  Restarted the system and now I
>> notice that the log says MBE was running as a slave backend.  (There
>> is no other backend on my network.)  MythCommflag tried to start up
>> and complained "a file should be local, but it can not be found".
>> Then "MythSocket(1136b0:11): Unable to lookup:".
>>
>> Of course, I commented out the skip-networking line and restarted
>> everything.  But MBE keeps starting up as a slave and complaining
>> about errors related to MythSocket.  I've run MythTV-Setup.app but
>> everything there seems normal.
>>
>> Help!  What have I done?!?
>
>You've likely broken (one or more of) your config.xml or mysql.txt files.
>
Thanks, Mike.  As usual, you put me on the right track.  Turned out there were two things wrong.  I'm running the backend as a system daemon (under Mac OS X launchd), and I'd screwed up specifying the HOME.  I think it was creating a new config.xml each time I started up.  And on the first page of the MythTV-Setup General settings, I needed to put in the assigned ip address in both the slave and master boxes.  (I'm pretty sure I haven't done that in the past--but then I haven't made changes to my backend for years!)

Thanks again,

Craig